Empirically based modelling of radar-rainfall uncertainties for a C-band radar at different time-scales

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 643, 2009, Pages 1424-1438

  Villarini, Gabriele ^a   Krajewski, Witold F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Modelling of uncertainties; Sampling error

Indexed keywords

DISTORTION FUNCTIONS; ENGLAND; HIGHLY DENSE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MODELLING OF UNCERTAINTIES; RADAR SITES; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; RANDOM COMPONENTS; SAMPLING ERROR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; TIME-SCALES;

CATCHMENTS; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SAMPLING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349604923     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.454     Document Type: Article

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